The case is simply that the authors probably have a different view of licensing, and wish that their code remains free software even when integrated in other pr

The case is simply that the authors probably have a different view of licensing, and wish that their code remains free software even when integrated in other products. It probably wouldn't help that much in the case of something like Github because Github uses their own version of git. Depending on the outlook, AGPL is simply there to fix a loophole in the GPL, and rightly so.